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2003 WETLANDS WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

Monday, October 27

10:00 am - 5:00 pm        Registration - Howard Johnson - Victoria Ballroom

12:30 pm                       Welcome and Workshop Logistics

12:40 pm                       Opening Remarks

1:00 pm                         Session I: Isolated Wetlands

2:00 pm                         Special Topic: Katherine Trott, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Headquarters

2:30                               Break

3:00 pm                         Session II: Compensatory Mitigation Efforts

4:15 pm                         Session III: Tidal Wetland Restoration Efforts

5:30 pm                         Social Hour - Scribbles Café, Holiday Inn

Tuesday, October 28

9:00 am                         Session IV: Non-Tidal Wetland Restoration Efforts

10:00 am                        Break

10:30 am                        Session V:  Techniques for Controlling Invasive or Inhibitory Species

11:45 am                        Lunch - Constitution Ballroom, Holiday Inn - Speaker: Kent Mountford, Estuarine Ecologist & Environmental Historian “Barnegat Days: Genesis of an Estuarine Ecologist with a Historical Perspective.”

1:15 pm                         Session VI: Using GIS Techniques for Wetland Identification

2:30 pm                         Break

3:00 pm                         Session VII: Wetland Assessment Techniques

Wetlands Hydrology

4:15 pm                         Session VIII: Monitoring and Measuring Hydrology

5:15 pm                         Social Hour - Scribbles Café, Holiday Inn

7:00 pm - 11:00 pm         Evening Social, Dinner and Musical Entertainment - Constitution Ballroom, Holiday Inn

Wednesday, October 29

9:00 am                         Session IX: Hydrology and Hydric Soils

10:30 am                        Break

11:00 am                        Session X: The Hydrology of Different Types of Wetlands

12:30 pm                        Lunch - Constitution Ballroom, Holiday Inn - Speaker: Ken Hayes, President, Aqua Survey, “Resurrecting the Lost ‘Sin Cities’ of Egypt”

2:00 pm                         Session XI: Factors Impacting Wetland Hydrology

3:30 pm                         Break

4:00 pm                         Session XII: Assessing Hydrology for Compensatory Mitigation Projects

5:00 pm                         Closing Remarks

5:15 pm                         Adjourn

Thursday, October 30

8:30 am - 5:00 pm                      Field Trip: Hydrology Of the Pine Barrens

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